Posted on 12/22/2007 7:56:40 PM PST by melt
and before I leave you
I don’t need to read your insults;
learn some manners and LEARN THE RULES
“Please: NO profanity, NO personal attacks, NO racism or violence in posts.”
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Well then, don't start nothin' and there won't be nothin'
When you try to play rough you have to expect to get back what you give. Right?
I really do hope you have a wonderful Christmas.
That’s an option which shuold be left to the individual.
I admire the Catholic Church for many reasons, but I have a problem with authority figures. This Pope and the one before him were and are good men. Others have varied substantially in their worth.
England would do well to just pass on Prince Charles in favor of William or someone else.
No, each diocese uses the same missal. The scriptural portions of the Mass are the same in any Roman Catholic Church in the world. And the entire Bible is covered in the three-year cycle, which then repeats. Just as the Liturgical Year covers the entire life of Christ.
Thanks for the info. It seemed to be the same thing each year. However there are some things I don’t recall from the Mass (about 20 years worth) that I read on my own, such as Ahab and Jezebel. Does it really cover 100% of the Bible (every chapter and verse) or just bits and pieces from each book?
I don’t know if every verse is covered, but certainly every book.
Have you read the entire Catechism of the Catholic Church? I doubt it.
Henry VIII didnt make England a Protestant nation.
Thats a modern myth through poor history and teaching. All Henry did was institute an indepedent Catholic church in England. Protestantism came at the time of his descendants (Edward, Elizabeth etc)
I hope you are joking.
If not, then:
The Ulster Protestants have been in Ireland since 1607, BEFORE the Mayflower landed in America.And if you know your Irish history, the settlers from Scotland were themselves descended in part from the ancient Cruthin/Pretani who settled ancient Ulster from what is now Western and South Western Scotland, whose descendants under King Fergus ruled an empire which until 500ad ruled Ulster and parts of (what is now)Western Scotland, and famously came back to Scotland in around 500ad.
So through shared history and at least 400 years of settlement in Ireland, the Protestants and British have every right to stay where they are thanks...follow the ‘logic’ of that famoua argument,and you will have every white North American coming back to Britain, Ireland and Europe.
Sorry, but all these Irish Americans who say the Protestants or British should ‘leave Ireland’ ignore two things:
a—the real history, not the psuedo-romantic tosh spoken of in Boston bars...
b—what the people of NI and SI want.Any future is theirs, Catholic and Protestant. And the VAST majority of Catholic NI’ers want NI to remain part of Britain and do so every election. Donr let the Sein Fein/IRA PR fool you....
The peoples of Ireland and Britain have moved the Irish debate on. It seems only the Irish Americans are stuck in some timewarp decades if not centuries behind us...
There is no such thing as a ‘native Irish’.....even the Celts were invaders,the Vikings, Danes, Normans, English...all the Irish have the blood of invaders and conquerors.
Er,no it wasnt, if he was being serious.
Read my reply to him to understand why.
Of course, if you WERE just joking, ignore my counter-rant, I mean, point.....lol
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Because I am a US citizen, what makes you think you know where my family came from or how I came by my views and opinions? Of course I am Irish by ancestry but I assure you I am not of “Boston Irish” stock.
Since you are posting on FreeRepublic let’s assume we have a lot in common ideologically and instead hoist a glass of Laphroaig toward a conservative free-market world view.
Fair enough.One or two anti-British FR’ers with an Irish-American grudge here, like ‘axlrose’ etc. Apologies for the libel..lol.
Still disagree very strongly on the main point.But I will happily raise that glass with you and wish you a Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year...
All the best.
I just thought his remark was witty. Obviously, the people of Northern Ireland have the right to determine where their loyalties lie. They have “stood alone” since the days of Cuchulain!
"The Catholic Problem," eh?
You're an ignorant ass.
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